Empress Liang looked at the scenes in the picture, her whole body was cold, and she felt faint.
Three million?
What a terrifying and shocking figure this is!
When Taizu Emperor Wu pacified the world and founded the Great Wilderness Dynasty, he only had a few hundred thousand soldiers and horses, but the famine in Qingzhou actually killed three million people?
This is a catastrophe that has never happened since the founding of the Great Wilderness!
In any dynasty, if there is such a catastrophic disaster in the world, the emperor will be considered to be in the wrong position and will be punished by God.
The scene from The Sims continues...
[The ministers in the court were in an uproar, and the sound of whispering could not be heard without stopping. 】
[As the emperor, you are also panicked. You are stunned by this news and don’t know what to do? 】
[At this time, Zhou Zhenwen, the treacherous minister you hate most, bowed his hands and said: Your Majesty, disaster relief and rescuing the people are the top priority now. I implore your Majesty to open the granaries in other states and counties to allow ministers to go to the disaster areas to provide food relief. 】
[You were just about to agree when a minister came out: Your Majesty, Mr. Zhou is a cabinet scholar and has important responsibilities. The Ministry of Household Affairs should be responsible for food relief. 】
[You recognized the identity of this person. Gao Fengyu, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, is an important member of the Qingliu Party and is quite powerful in the court. The Qingliu Party controls two of the six departments and is a mortal enemy of the Tsing Yi Party. 】
[You consider that Zhou Zhenwen is also a treacherous minister, but you don’t trust Gao Fengyu to go alone. After all, the famine in Qingzhou is very involved and there are many victims. If you want to rescue the victims, you need the cooperation of many capable ministers to deliver food and grass. into the hands of disaster victims. 】
[Finally, you ordered Zhou Zhenwen, the cabinet scholar, Gao Fengyu, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Wang Tian, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, to take charge of this matter and jointly complete the relief of Qingzhou victims. 】
Empress Liang looked at the simulated future scene and said in a deep voice: "Checking and balancing the three parties is indeed the best method at present. I can only hope that Zhou Zhenwen, a traitor, will not be greedy for the people's life-saving money!! Otherwise, I will fight against the imperial court. You are in turmoil, and you are reputed as a tyrant, so I will kill you!!"
Before the late emperor passed away, he left a lot of information to her, including dead warriors with high martial arts skills, as well as a lot of soldiers, horses, gold and silver money.
With these foundations, Empress Liang Zhao felt that she had the strength to deal with Zhou Zhenwen.
Empress Liang Zhao thought this, but the next scene made her eyes wide open, and she yelled: "Treacherous minister, treacherous sycophant, damn it, you really deserve to die!!"
In the picture, members of the Tsing Yi Party under Zhou Zhenwen walked into an underground bank with disaster relief gold and relief grain from the court.
All the disaster relief funds that the court had finally raised were "corrupted"...
Soon, members of the Tsing Yi Party came out one after another carrying bran and fodder for livestock, as well as significantly reduced copper coins.
The precious grains used to relieve the victims were sold into bran and fodder for livestock?
He also embezzled a lot of disaster relief funds and turned them from silver into copper plates?
Seeing this scene, Empress Liang Zhao felt deeply remorseful for her choice. How could she believe Zhou Zhenwen, a traitorous minister?
He is extremely greedy!
Empress Liang Zhao never expected that Zhou Zhenwen would even take away the food, grass and money that the victims needed to save their lives?
This incident was quickly discovered by the other two officials. They found Zhou Zhenwen and questioned him about what he had done.
[Gao Fengyu, Right Minister of the Ministry of Revenue: Mr. Zhou, do you know that the disaster relief grain and one hundred thousand taels of silver distributed by the imperial court were exchanged for copper coins and bran and fodder for livestock? 】
[Zhou Zhenwen: Oh, I know about this. 】
[Wang Tian, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry: Mr. Zhou, don’t you feel ashamed? There are such corrupt officials in the Tsing Yi Party who dare to embezzle even the government's disaster relief funds. As a cabinet bachelor, you have an unshirkable responsibility! I want to report this matter to Your Majesty and let Your Majesty punish them! 】
[Unexpectedly, instead of feeling guilty, Zhou Zhenwen actually smiled and said: Ashamed? No, I feel very happy. 】
[Hearing this, the expressions of the two adults changed, and they looked at the chief minister of the cabinet and the leader of the Tsing Yi Party in great surprise. At this moment, they just felt that Zhou Zhenwen was crazy! He is actually pleased that his officials embezzled disaster relief funds? 】
Hearing Zhou Zhenwen's response, Empress Liang Zhao gritted her teeth with hatred, wishing she could bite this corrupt official to death!
How could there be such a shameless person in the world?
[Zhou Zhenwen: You two adults don’t know something! This pound of grain can be exchanged for three pounds of bran, which means that the grain that could originally save one person can now save three people. Isn't this worthy of my joy? 】
[Gao Fengyu, Right Minister of Household Affairs: But bran is for livestock, not for humans! 】
[Zhou Zhenwen: Are disaster victims still human beings? 】
[Wang Tian, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry: What? This sentence would actually come out of the mouth of a cabinet bachelor like you? frenzied! You are crazy, you are simply crazy! 】
[Zhou Zhenwen: You must know that people who are about to starve to death are no longer human beings, they are beasts. As long as they can survive, what is the point of chaff? That's good stuff, grass roots, bark, soil, you can eat them all! 】
[Gao Fengyu, Right Minister of Tobe: These words coming from your mouth are really shocking! 】
[Zhou Zhenwen: Of course you are shocked. You are just a scholar. You only read books from sages and sages in the Hanlin Academy. You only learn the great principles of others and scold the injustices of those in power. Have you ever walked through the disaster area? Have you seen the victims? 】
[Do you know what it’s like to be thousands of miles across the ground and littered with corpses? 】
[I have been there, and when I saw these victims, my heart dropped! 】
[Have you ever seen people who bloated to death after eating Guanyin soil? 】
[Gao Fengyu, Right Minister of the Ministry of Finance: What is Guanyin soil? 】
[Wang Tian, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, also showed a puzzled look. 】
The same was true for the empress Liang Zhao who saw this scene. She had never heard of this word, let alone what Guanyin soil was?
[Zhou Zhenwen: Look, you don’t know. Let me ask you again, have you ever seen the sight of thousands of miles of plains where all the bark and grass roots have been eaten away? 】
[Of course you have heard of changing children to eat. For you, this is just four words in history books. 】
【I have seen it with my own eyes! 】
[This...for the children to eat, it's just a pile of meat in the pot. 】
[Do you think I am inhumane? 】
[You think you are only greedy for power and money, don’t you? 】
[Qingzhou famine, even if you don’t believe it, I don’t believe it either. I personally went to the disaster area. Wherever I went, looking at the victims, I knew that no matter how much relief food the court distributed, it would never be enough. There were too many people. Well, if I don't find a way to work around it, the death toll will not be three million, but five million or eight million! 】
[Wang Tian, Right Minister of the Ministry of Industry: Even so, why should all the money be sent to underground banks? If you want to exchange for bran, you can buy it from ordinary people? I looked at their accounts and found that all the grain, grass and disaster relief funds had been replaced by bran, fodder, and copper coins, and the amount was much smaller. 】
[Gao Fengyu, Right Minister of the Ministry of Revenue: Yes, according to the account books, officials of all sizes, as long as they are involved in disaster relief, are embezzling the disaster relief funds. They are simply lawless, and beheading more than a dozen times is not excessive! ! 】
[Zhou Zhenwen: To save the people, save the officials first. If the officials can’t survive, how can we save the people? 】
[Gao Fengyu, the right minister of the Ministry of Finance: Ridiculous! It’s a story that will last forever! ! 】
[Wang Tian, the Right Minister of the Ministry of Industry: According to Mr. Zhou, the corrupt officials of the past dynasties were actually loyal ministers? Do the people of the world still want to thank them for being greedy? 】
[Facing the words of the two people, Zhou Zhenwen just chuckled, stretched out his hand, dipped his hand in water and wrote the big word "官" on the table between them: The word "官" has two mouths. If you don't feed the upper mouth, who will Come and feed the mouth down there? 】
[Those tens of millions of victims, who will distribute relief food to them? Is it your right minister, Gao Darenfa? Or should you, Mr. Wang, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, send it out? 】
[Should I, the bachelor of the cabinet, send the money? 】
[Isn’t it just relying on those officials, big and small, that you mentioned? 】
[Only when they are fed will they work for me, for the imperial court, and for disaster relief in Qingzhou! 】
[Do you know how many victims there are in Qingzhou? 】
[Fifteen million, almost all of Qingzhou has fallen. Going there to provide disaster relief is like going to a wolf's den to look for meat. If you are not careful, you will risk being swallowed up by the victims. Hungry and anxious victims will not care that we are providing disaster relief. The officers and soldiers, or the officers and soldiers who oppressed them, they only know that we have food, nothing more. 】
